Jacksonville Newswire

Almost $969,800 in state economic-development funding that would have paid for new restrooms in Ward's baseball park, an electric generator for the Cabot animal shelter, a jail in England and books for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program in Pulaski County, among other things, must be returned to public coffers, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza ruled on Tuesday. But one-third of it -- $323,267 -- must go to pay the legal expenses of Mike Wilson of Jacksonville who brought the lawsuit that led to the high-court ruling that legislators had illegally funded the program out of the state General Improvement Fund, the judge said.
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Facing future recruitment and retention shortfalls, the U.S. Air Force is experimenting with a new approach, and Arkansas is one of its first targets. The Air Force wants to collaborate with secondary schools and colleges near installations like Little Rock Air Force Base in Jacksonville.
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A $79.2 million project to widen U.S. 67/167 from Jacksonville to Cabot will require a series of lane closings and modifications to two on-ramps beginning today and lasting throughout the week, the Arkansas Department of Transportation said. Lanes on U.S. 67/167 and the northbound frontage road will be closed at various times, weather permitting.
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Newly filed court documents say a former Jacksonville man who has been indicted in Arkansas in a 2016 fight in a restaurant on an American Air Force base in Japan nearly killed one of three U.S. airmen with whom he fought. Rodrigo Pineda Gomez, whose wife is a U.S. Air Force major based on Misawa Air Base in Japan, was indicted this month in the Eastern District of Arkansas on one count of attempted voluntary manslaughter and three counts of assault by striking, beating or wounding.
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Jacksonville police on Thursday were investigating an apparent murder-suicide after two people were found dead, according to an agency spokesman. Authorities were notified of the deaths midday Thursday, and a child was at the residence when the deaths occurred, according to police spokesman April Kiser.
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... location or true identity" of the person behind the message, Robert Lasky, special agent in charge of the FBI's Jacksonville office, told reporters. YouTube ultimately removed the material in question, and the FBI's inquiry was dropped until the ...
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A bar fight at a U.S. air base in Japan has resulted in a former Arkansan facing charges of attempted manslaughter and assault in federal court in Little Rock. On Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Beth Deere presided over a teleconferenced plea and arraignment in which Rodgrigo Pineda Gomez, formerly of Jacksonville, asked to be released until his Arkansas trial stemming from a Feb. 6 indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in Little Rock.
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A 43-year-old Jacksonville man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after admitting he accessed child pornography over the Internet. Shawn Daniel Wright, who has no prior criminal record, pleaded guilty to five counts of distributing, possessing or viewing matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child before Pulaski County Circuit Judge Barry Sims on Tuesday.
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Work on a $79.2 million project to widen a section of U.S. 67/167 from Jacksonville to Cabot will require a series of lane closings and ramp modifications beginning Monday and lasting throughout the week, the Arkansas Department of Transportation said.
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A five-day hearing on whether the Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District is entitled to be released from federal court supervision on staffing practices and facility plans ended Friday with the judge's pledge to make a prompt decision. "I like when I can to rule from the bench, but I cannot do that here," U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. told representatives of the district and the Joshua intervenors at the end of a day of testimony and closing arguments.
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The Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District's share of a $62 million price tag for three new campuses will be about $27 million, Superintendent Bryan Duffie and attorney Scott Richardson calculated Thursday in a federal school desegregation case hearing. The district's share for two new elementaries and a middle school is assuming a $10 million draw on district savings, a voter-approved extended tax levy in 2021 and a state reimbursement of at least 47 percent of the academic building costs, the two told U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. Marshall is holding the hearing this week on whether to release the district from further court supervision of its desegregation efforts in both staffing and facilities.
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The Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District needs 16 more years to fulfill its plan for replacing virtually all of its schools, Charles Stein, a planning consultant to the new district, acknowledged Wednesday in federal court. Stein, a civil engineer and retired director of the state's Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation, told U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. that to finance bond debt, the new district has to pace the construction of new schools to the receipt of state building aid and to voter-approved tax-levy extensions.
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A leader in the effort to staff the new Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District urged principals to employ at least one black teacher for every core academic subject area -- math, English, science and social studies -- in the middle and high schools. Beverly Williams, a longtime human-resources director in public education, testified Tuesday in federal court that she also had pushed for a classroom teaching staff of at least 25 percent blacks in the district's six elementary schools -- all in an effort to comply with the system's desegregation obligations in regard to school staffing.
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Recovered from a combination of wintertime ailments, the Little Rock Hall Lady Warriors held on for a 66-59 victory over the Jacksonville Lady Titans at Cirks Arena on Tuesday night. Six days earlier, Hall traveled to Jacksonville without three starters and lost 41-21.
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